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  1. “My third and final point is that our cooperation will count for little without sustainable financing. As we heard last week during our discussions with the AU Peace and Security Council in Addis Ababa, this is a top objective for all of us. So we must find a solution which shares the responsibility to provide adequate, predictable and sustainable financing to AU- led missions, including the AU's own commitment to fund 25 per cent of costs by 2020. It was important to the United Kingdom that on our visit to Addis Ababa, so many speakers from the two Councils and the AU Commission reiterated their commitment to funding that 25 per cent.”

    2017-09-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8044 (2017) · source

  2. “The bravery and the heroism of African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) troops, to whom I pay genuine and profound tribute, supported by the United Nations, has enabled the political process and progress we see there. During this year's presidential elections, it was AU troops who protected the venue, infrastructure and participants, ensuring the safety and security of all those involved, and it was the United Nations Support Office in Somalia that helped AMISOM. in the preparatory work, setting up the venue, ensuring the integrity of the site and providing Vital security equipment to AMISOM. Together, they - we - helped make history, ensuring that the most democratic presidential elections in Somalia in decades passed off successfully and peacefully. It is a model that we should replicate elsewhere.”

    2017-09-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8044 (2017) · source

  3. “We should agree as the United Nations that we will make available any of our special envoys or special representatives if the African Union Peace and Security Council wishes to hear from them, and we should invite the African Union to do the same. We should also look at what more we can do as Member States. The United Kingdom works closely with AU member States to provide military capacity- building, delivering, training and sharing expertise on improving accountability, human rights compliance and preventing sexual Violence in conflict. I know others are doing the same, and I encourage all to do so. Secondly, we need both organizations to play to their comparative strengths so that together we are more than the sum of our parts. We need only look to Somalia to see that it works.”

    2017-09-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8044 (2017) · source

  4. “First, and the others have said, we need to do more to learn from each other. A simple first step would be having more joint briefings in the Chamber from Au and United Nations officials, as we do on Somalia. They are a vital means of increasing the awareness and knowledge of all of us around this table. There should also be more joints analysis, joint planning and joint assessments so that we form a common understanding of a situation and together find common solutions. The recent un-Au Visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigeria on the theme of women and peace and security was an example of the sort of collaborative work we should encourage. We should cultivate our joint reporting on gender-based violence in places like South Sudan so that we move beyond reporting to the sharing of action plans and further collaboration.”

    2017-09-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8044 (2017) · source

  5. “I wish you a Happy New Year, Mr. President. I also thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Menkerios for his briefing. At the outset, let me express my thanks to you, Sir, and tio the Secretariat for leading a successful visit to the Africa Union (AU) in Addis Ababa. We all saw and heard first hand just how critical the relationship is between the United Nations and the AU, and I look forward and commit to doing whatever I can to strengthen that relationship. I do so because our two great organizations share the same objectives, the same priorities and the same respect for the principle of African leadership. It is therefore in all of our interests to forge an even closer relationship as we strive to maintain peace and security in Africa.To do so, I see three steps that we should take.”

    2017-09-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8044 (2017) · source

  6. “Gert Rosenthal notes that the Security Council rarely acts to prevent conflict. My own short experience here has shown that we are not willing to act even when, as in South Sudan, there has been conflict for five out of the six years of the country's existence, a third of the population is displaced, half are living in food insecurity, and United Nations resolutions and promises made have been repeatedly broken. Peacekeeping is one tool in the sustaining piece toolbox. It cannot be used in isolation, and we are seeing progress towards more integrated approaches. Even the most coherent United Nations response will still be blunt without attention to the primacy of politics. In that regard, we have further to go.”

    2017-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8033 (2017) · source

  7. “Politically blind capacity-building efforts risk worsening the situation. United Nations country teams integrated into the wider effort also have a role to play in promoting sustainable political solutions. Greater understanding of who does and does not benefit from development programming and how this is linked to political dynamics is critical. Let us face the facts - where political regimes are unaccountable, unresponsive to their own people and unrepresentative, including of women, appeals to national ownership will ring hollow. Finally, we in the Council must be politically engaged and ready to speak. A Council united around a shared political strategy to de-escalate tensions could have a powerful effect, but even in the face of flagrant violations of its resolutions the Council too often finds itself deadlocked and unable to act.”

    2017-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8033 (2017) · source

  8. “Peacekeeping missions cannot create the conditions for their own exit without a sustainable political solution to conflict. As such, the second issue I should like to focus on is the primacy of politics. Special Representatives of the Secretary-General need to be politically active, using their good offices and leveraging support from their missions and the wider United Nations system. We must accept that missions are political tools in themselves, both representative of the will of the Council and in their actions on the ground. The tasks of peace operations are never merely technical. For example, the re-establishment of effective States often situations at the centre of mission exit plans, but missions cannot improve the functioning of State institutions without an understanding of how these institutions will be used and by whom.”

    2017-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8033 (2017) · source

  9. “They should be taking on responsibilities much earlier, not waiting until a mission drawdown looms. Important lessons will soon emerge from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Darfur - contexts where more may be asked of country teams. Support from the top is needed for an integrated approach. The coordinating role of the Strategic Planning and Monitoring Unit in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General is a welcome start. It will enable more integrated analysis and a more coherent cross-United Nations review of activity in-country. We would like to see the Unit regularly reviewing peace operations and look forward to its contribution to the review of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”

    2017-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8033 (2017) · source

  10. “We need to take in clear views and understand ground truth from the field. The Council must be more disciplined in setting out strategic goals that can be translated through mandates into prioritized objectives, benchmarks for success and plans for mission drawdown once these have been achieved. On the ground, the whole of the United Nations should have a joint analysis of the situation, common objectives and clarity over roles and responsibilities towards meeting them. In the context of Liberia's transition, a shared peacebuilding plan has gone some way towards achieving that. Moreover, a better balance of responsibilities between missions and country teams needs to be struck. Not every conflict driver can be addressed within the lifetime of a peacekeeping mission. Long-term change is best supported by United Nations country teams.”

    2017-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8033 (2017) · source

  11. “The first is how peacekeeping missions should be situated within wider United Nations efforts. At the most basic level, the starting point for any peacekeeping mission should be from all of the information gathered by the United Nations family over the years, including what the United Nations has already achieved in the field. It should be clear what and how peacekeeping missions will deliver with United Nations partners during their deployment, and how they will hand over to other United Nations actors when they leave. For example, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan may be the second-largest in the world, but it is also only one of 20 United Nations bodies and agencies represented in the country. We in the Council must reflect on these questions during mission mandating and planning.”

    2017-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8033 (2017) · source

  12. “I thank the briefers for their insightful contributions. Let me also today, through the Deputy Secretary-General, thank the women and men of the United Nations around the world for their service and courage. The United Kingdom aligns itself with the upcoming statement of the European Union. Conflicts rarely follow a predictable path. We must move beyond the idea of a set of sequential responses, which is why the United Kingdom supports the Secretary-General's vision for a more holistic and inclusive approach to conflict prevention, management and resolution. Sustaining peace requires that all of the United Nations system be aligned in every context and able to carry out multiple tasks simultaneously. I would like to focus on two issues today related to sustaining peace.”

    2017-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8033 (2017) · source

  13. “As we have heard so clearly today, it is reporting for which the highest price has been paid and it must not be a price paid in vain.”

    2017-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8026 (2017) · source

  14. “They must be fully implemented if they are to be effective. We also have a responsibility to keep sanctions under close review. Those who engage in or support acts that undermine the peace, stability or security of the Democratic Republic of the Congo can and, if needed, will be sanctioned by the Council. The Human Rights Council international investigative mechanism will also play a crucial role in the Kasais. Let us therefore all urge the Democratic Republic of the Congo to cooperate fully with its work. I would like to thank the Committee that you chair, Sir, for its work and for the report. I would also like to thank you personally for the sensitive and effective way in which you have steered our work. Finally, we owe it to Zaida, Michael and the rest of the Group of Experts to continue to use their reporting in our decisions.”

    2017-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8026 (2017) · source

  15. “I am glad that some of the militia responsible have been caught and put on trial; that is welcomed. But without political stability, the tide could turn and those positive trends could be reversed. There are already clear warning signs, such as the growing reports of widespread sexual violence, including by the Forces arme'es de la Republique democratique du Congo in the Kasais, of the widespread recruitment of children by the Kamuina Nsapu militia or of continuing violence in the east. We should all be concerned that armed groups continue to fund their hateful crimes by stealing natural resources. Such crimes must stop and those responsible must be held to account. We need to recognize that we have tools at our disposal to help that happen, such as the sanctions already imposed by the Council.”

    2017-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8026 (2017) · source

  16. “First and foremost, that means recognizing the link between the political and security situations. Uncertainty and inertia over the implementation of the 31 December agreement is only fuelling instability and violence. With the Vice-Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo here today, let us all agree that the December agreement must be fully implemented. If implementation continues to falter, we worry about what will happen next. We need only look to the first half of this year and the 430 officially recorded human rights violations linked to the electoral process. That figure is higher than that for the whole of 2015. As the report of the Group of Experts (see S/2017/672/Rev.1) shows, such violence is fuelling further violence. I am appalled at the reports of child rape in Kavumu.”

    2017-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8026 (2017) · source

  17. “But more needs to be done. I therefore welcome the Secretary- General's call in his letter to the Council for a follow- on mechanism, and we urge him to take action swiftly towards a further investigation so that we can uncover the truth for Zaida and Michael and for the safety of all United Nations personnel around the globe. Five months after the murder of Michael, Zaida and Betu, accountability is yet to materialize. Those who ordered their killings remain at large. Zaida and Michael were two of the most pre-eminent experts on the Kasai regions. Tragically, it appears that their very expertise made them a target. The violence they sought to eliminate was brutally turned against them. Let there be no mistake: they were killed for shining a light on the horrific human rights situation in the Kasais, and we must not let that light go out.”

    2017-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8026 (2017) · source

  18. “That is a message that needs to go far beyond the Chamber - indeed, far beyond the borders of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - because it was we in the Council who asked for the information that Michael and Zaida went to gather. We asked them to be our eyes and ears. Wherever in the world the men and women of the United Nations are murdered, wherever in the world they are harmed and abducted, we cannot stay silent and we cannot stand aside. We must ensure that the perpetrators of such crimes face the fullest consequences of their actions. We need to ensure accountability. We took the first step to that end through resolution 2360 (2017), with new designation criteria for those who kill United Nations personnel. The Secretary-General took the second step by commissioning a Board of Inquiry, which has uncovered more details.”

    2017-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8026 (2017) · source

  19. “Today we have been discussing the work of the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo extended pursuant to resolution 2293 (2016). Tragically, their report (see S/2017/672/Rev.1) comes in the wake of the murder of two United Nations human rights experts, Michael Sharp and Zaida Catalan. I am glad that we are meeting in the open today. This is not an issue to discuss behind closed doors. We owe it to the families of Michael and Zaida, and their interpreter Betu Tshintela, to speak loudly and clearly in the Chamber, express our deepest condolences and reiterate our firm resolve to see their killers brought to justice.”

    2017-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8026 (2017) · source

  20. “We were reminded again in recent days of the security challenges facing the region. The international community is committed to confronting these problems, and the United Kingdom believes that the joint force is an important regional component of these efforts. In addition to military efforts, however, we need to tackle the political challenges. We welcome the progress that has been made, but we urge all Malian parties to speed up the implementation of the peace agreement and to continue their dialogue. Important steps have been taken in recent months, and we hope and believe that these will continue. May I conclude on a personal note by thanking you, Mr. President, and colleagues around the table for your welcome to me here today and to say how much I am looking forward to working with all Council members.”

    2017-08-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8024 (2017) · source

  21. “We echo the importance, spelled out in resolution 2359 (2017), of the protection of civilians, respect for human rights and the integration of a gender perspective. In his briefing, Assistant Secretary-General Wane described the resource challenges faced by the G-5 Sahel joint force. It is important that its needs be clearly set out, so that the international community can explore supporting its operations and finances, including through the donor conference that we heard about today. The United Kingdom is offering training support, including through the European Union, and we continue to explore what more we can do. We welcome the recent announcement by France and Germany of the new Sahel alliance and fully support this initiative. We urge all Council members to examine how they can provide further assistance, as we ourselves are doing.”

    2017-08-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8024 (2017) · source

  22. “I want to begin by offering my condolences to all of those affected by the attacks in Burkina Faso and Mali in recent days. The United Kingdom condemns in the strongest possible terms the violent actions of those intent on undermining stability in the region. They will not succeed. I would also like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Wane for his briefing today. The United Kingdom has consistently welcomed the creation of a Group of Five for the Sahel (G-5 Sahel) joint force and its objectives to tackle terrorism, organized crime, people-smuggling and human trafficking. We are encouraged by the early progress that has been made since the adoption of resolution 2359 (2017) and look forward to the joint force mobilizing and implementing its operations.”

    2017-08-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8024 (2017) · source